HST 412b, Fall 2006 Readings

Packet/ERes Reading List

HST 412B, Fall 2006

1. Selections from The Prison Notebooks by Antiono Gramsci, in John Boyer and Jan Goldstein, eds., Readings in Western Civilization: Twentieth Century Europe (University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp. 318-333.

2. Selections from The Treason of the Intellectuals by Julien Benda, in John Boyer and Jan Goldstein, eds., Readings in Western Civilization: Twentieth Century Europe (University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp. 333-341.

3. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" in John Boyer and Jan Goldstein, eds., Readings in Western Civilization: Twentieth Century Europe (University of Chicago Press, 1987).

4. George Orwell, selections from Homage to Catalonia ; Complete Works of George Orwell , v. 6 (London: Secker and Warburg, 1986); pp. 14-37, 188-215.

5. Simone de Beauvoir, "Introduction" and "Woman's Situation and Character" in her The Second Sex (Knopf, 1952 copyright/my pages from 1970 Bantam edition), pp. xiii-xxix, 662-698.

6. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Culture Industry" in their Dialectic of Enlightenment (New York: Continuum, 1986), pp. 120-167.

7. Czeslaw Milosz, "Ketman" in his The Captive Mind (New York, 1953). (**on ERes only**)

8. David Caute, The Year of the Barricades: A Journey Through 1968 (New York: Harper and Row, 1988), pp. 86-89, 185-207, 211-255.

9. Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit, "The Battle of the Streets," in Carl Oglesby, ed., The New Left Reader (New York: Grove Press, 1969), pp. 254-266.